Southeast Review of Asian Studies, Volume 30, 2008

• Front Matter including Editor's Note, Table of Contents and Contributors

• Full Report

      Invited Essay

• Founding a Scholarly Journal for the Southeast Conference

     Interactions & Reactions: Asia & the West:

• Early Modern Chinese Reactions to Western Missionary Iconography

• Sheiks and Samurai: Leon Roches and the French Imperial Projec

• Ezra Pound's Poetic Mirror and the "China Cantos": The Healing of the West

• Jack London's Influential Role as an Observer of Early Modern Asia

      Sociopolitical Dynamics in Asia

• Sustainability of India's Welfare System in the Context of Globalization: A Comparative Study of Maharashtra and Tamil Nadu

• The Relationship between Sufis and Inner Asian Ruling Elites

      Language: Construction & Interpretation

• Chains of Elusiveness: Buson and Kito's "Momosumomo" Haikai Sequences

• The Tower of Power's Finest Hour: Stupa Construction and Veneration in the Lotus Sutra

• Ambiguous and Amiss: Li Shangyin's Poetry and Its Interpretations

      Scholarly Notes

• Placing "Qinghai Studies" in the Field of China and Inner Asia

• Digital Music Success in China: Suggested Guidelines for Foreign Firms

• Contagion: Thinking about Cholera in Nineteenth-Century Burma

• Asia in World History: Notes on Pedagogical Scholarship

• The Dissonance between Culture and Intellectual Property in China

• The Consolidation of Place and Punishment in Seventeenth-Century Japan: Kanazawa Prisons and Criminal Justice

• A Culture in Decline: The Mississippi Delta Chinese

• The Tian Zu Hui (Natural Foot Society): Christian Women in China and the Fight against Footbinding

      Book Reviews
      Asia: Comparative & Transnational

• Asia: Comparative & Transnational
  Baroowah, Tea: Legend, Life and Livelihood of India
  Gautier, Tea: Aromas and Flavors around the World
  Heiss & Heiss, The Story of Tea: A Cultural History and Drinking Guide
  Hohenegger, Liquid Jade: The Story of Tea from East to West
  Martin, Tea: The Drink That Changed the World

• Esposito & Mogahed, Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think
  Moaddel, ed., Values and Perceptions of the Islamic and Middle Eastern Publics

• Hershock, Buddhism in the Public Sphere: Reorienting Global Interdependence

• Jones, ed., Buddha Nature and Animality

      China

• Chandler & Littlejohn, eds., Polishing the Chinese Mirror: Essays in Honor of Henry Rosemont, Jr.

• Chen & Wu, Will the Boat Sink the Water? The Life of China's Peasants

      Japan

• Dalby, East Wind Melts the Ice: A Memoir through the Seasons
  Muller, Japanland: A Year in Search of Wa
  Williamson, A Year in Japan

• Kawabata, The Old Capital (trans. Holman)

• Keene, Frog in the Well: Portraits of Japan by Watanabe Kazan, 1793-1841

• Matsuoka, Japanese Prayer Below the Equator: How Brazilians Believe in the Church of World Messianity

      Korea

• Armstrong, The Koreas

• Robinson, Korea's Twentieth-Century Odyssey: A Short History

      South Asia

• Jaffrey, Climbing the Mango Trees: A Memoir of a Childhood in India

      Southeast Asia

• Kwon, After the Massacre: Commemoration and Consolation in Ha My and My Lai

      Proceedings of the 47th Annual Meeting